People speculate that if he had appeared, he would have been decapitated by the Headless Monks and remain as a head, eventually becoming the Face of Boe- which would have been fantastic continuity but it never happened. In the first episode of torchwood, when Gwen first walks into the main room of Torchwood, the camera focuses on the Doctor's hand. Post a Comment.
Doctor Who has spawned three spin-off series' since its return in Doctor Who sits at the heart of the franchise, with The Sarah Jane Adventures , Class and Torchwood catering for the children, teenager, and adult markets respectively. The question is: how does it all fit together? Below is a chronology of the show's main crossover episodes. It's by no means exhaustive, but what follows should be enough to give the new viewer a rough idea of what to expect, and the order in which to expect it.
Please note that this crossover article hasn't been updated since Her presence is explained in the Torchwood episode 'Exit Wounds' Normal civilian gas masks from World War II features a single eyepiece, rather than one for each eye.
It also had the working title of World War II at one point. Captain Jack is a former Time Agent. Homeless children in wartime London are terrorised by an unearthly child.
After an encounter with the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler , Queen Victoria was grateful for their assistance in defeating a werewolf. However, she was unsettled by their cavalier attitude to the death and destruction surrounding them.
She knighted the pair as a reward for their bravery, and then promptly banished them from the British Empire, never to return. The incident had also made her aware of otherworldly threats to the British Empire, prompting her to charter Torchwood to defend against them - specifically, the Doctor. Seeing his power and knowledge, the Queen was wary of his potential danger.
The name of the Institute was drawn from the Torchwood Estate , where most of the adventure took place. TV : Tooth and Claw. It was relatively common for the head of a Torchwood branch to kill all of their operatives, earning them a place on the Red List. Over time, the Institute accumulated much alien technology, reverse-engineering it and applying it to secret military projects within Britain. Within Torchwood an unofficial motto evolved: "If it's alien, it's ours.
Hiding out in the open in Canary Wharf was Torchwood Tower , built to better access a weak point in spacetime that existed above London. The Torchwood Tower was only part of a much larger plan involving free energy TV : Army of Ghosts that backfired horribly and resulted in the deaths of many.
TV : Everything Changes. By the time of Gwen Cooper 's recruitment into Torchwood Three, at least two other Torchwood branches were known to have existed as well: Torchwood Two and Torchwood Four.
Torchwood Two was based in Glasgow , Scotland , and was comprised of one man whom Jack Harkness regarded as "very strange". Torchwood Four had been "lost". It was disbanded in , but continued in secret until Captain Jack declared the organisation "outside the government and beyond the police". TV : Everything Changes It was indeed different from most British institutions, having been created by royal decree and funded directly by the Crown. However, it was explicitly not "above" the government.
HM Queen Victoria ordered:. Torchwood is also to administer to the Government thereof in our name, and generally to act in our name and on our behalf, subject to such orders and regulations as Torchwood shall, from time to time, receive from us through one of our Principal Secretaries of state.
The Torchwood Charter , 31 December [src]. Despite Jack's tendency to stress Torchwood's independence, Torchwood Three, at least, often complied with the spirit of the Charter. Public knowledge regarding Torchwood seemed to vary depending upon the situation. TV : The New World. By the year , , the Torchwood Institute had become the stuff of trivia questions.
TV : Bad Wolf. Torchwood's origins dated back to an incident involving the Tenth Doctor , Rose Tyler and Queen Victoria in the midth century. At Torchwood House in Scotland , a monastic group called the Brethren stored a werewolf , which menaced the countryside and the Queen.
With the monarch's assistance, the Doctor and Rose killed the werewolf. Victoria knighted them for their service, then banished them from the kingdom, declaring the Doctor in particular a potential threat to the Empire. Now aware of the reality of alien and supernatural life forms, Victoria ordered an organisation be created to protect the British Empire from the Doctor and threats such as the werewolf.
She named the organisation the Torchwood Institute, after the location of the werewolf encounter. In , agents Eliza Cooper and Robert Lewis attempted to capture the Tenth Doctor when they realised he had been stranded in London. They came across H. Wells , and interrogated him about the Doctor.
In the s , the Eighth Doctor discovered cryptic references to Torchwood in files at the Edinburgh Herald. Wells helped Torchwood cover up an alien invasion in the s. Object 1 , a gift from the Committee to Tsar Alexander and then passed onto Victoria, was the first entry to the Archive. Jack Harkness during his recruitment to Torchwood.
TV : Fragments. By , a branch of Torchwood had been founded in Cardiff , which was based around a rift in space and time. In , Jack Harkness was recruited by two of this branch's operatives, Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd as a freelance agent of the Institute.
His first mission was to apprehend a Blowfish ; he succeeded, but was greatly disturbed when Guppy summarily executed the creature before his eyes. He continued to work for Torchwood largely against his will, having been told by a young girl who could see the future using tarot cards that he would have to wait more than a century before seeing the Doctor again.
Meanwhile, he needed money to live. He continued to work for the organisation over the decades that followed, although he remained disturbed by the Institute's callous disregard for alien life forms.
On 17 May , the Life-stealer escaped from Torchwood London 's base at the National History Museum and proceeded to feed on the youth of Londoners starting with Torchwood London director, Archie , who was left permanently incapacitated as he was rapidly aged, at the same time Torchwood was visited by Queen Victoria for her annual inspection of the Institute, resulting her sharing an adventure with Jack Harkness as she took to pursuing the creature.
After Victoria killed the creature by exploiting its weakness against the elderly, both she and Jack declined their offers to each other to take command of Torchwood London, with the Queen retiring from public life while Jack returned to Torchwood in Cardiff.
At some point, Victoria also established Torchwood India to collect all things alien in the British Raj. After years of study, Torchwood concluded that Object 1 was a bad luck device which had caused significant strife in Russia whilst Alexander owned it, negatively affecting infantry mortality, crop yields and political dissatisfaction. Upon being presented this evidence by Jack, Victoria ordered him to dispose of it in the Cardiff Rift.
TV : Exit Wounds. He told them to freeze him in the cryo-chambers so he could defeat his brother Gray. Subsequently, Jack's future self resided in the cryo-chambers even as his younger self continued to work nearby. In , Eliza Cooper and Robert Lewis used a machine they commissioned Professor Alexander Hugh to build to travel to another planet thousands of years into the future.
Davies liked this idea so much that it later inspired him to use it as a title when creating this spin-off series. Owen and Suzie are the only members of the Torchwood team never to have had direct contact with the Doctor. In certain episodes, Torchwood members use a drug called "Retcon" to wipe the memories of people who know too much about the organization. Retcon is a term derived from "Retroactive Continuity" and is used in serialized fiction, especially comic books, for when new events effectively change or erase the established history of a series.
Two of the regular characters - Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato - originally appeared on the parent series, Doctor Who Toshiko Naoko Mori was the government forensic pathologist called in to perform the autopsy on the alien corpse in Doctor Who: Aliens of London He was last seen in Doctor Who: Journey's End It was heavily suggested that the two are related in Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth when the Doctor and Rose Tyler mention that she resembles the earlier character and she confirms that her family has lived in Cardiff since the s.
Agyeman later appeared in Torchwood: Reset and the two following episodes as the same character. Nicholas Briggs plays Rick Yates. Nicholas is the voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen in Doctor Who
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